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TY - JOUR
T1 - First Measurement of Quasielastic Λ Baryon Production in Muon Antineutrino Interactions in the MicroBooNE Detector
AU - MicroBooNE Collaboration
AU - Blake, A
AU - Devitt, A
AU - Nowak, J
AU - Patel, N
AU - Pophale, I
AU - Thorpe, C
PY - 2023/6/9
Y1 - 2023/6/9
N2 - We present the first measurement of the cross section of Cabibbo-suppressed Λ baryon production, using data collected with the MicroBooNE detector when exposed to the neutrinos from the main injector beam at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. The data analyzed correspond to 2.2×1020 protons on target running in neutrino mode, and 4.9×1020 protons on target running in anti-neutrino mode. An automated selection is combined with hand scanning, with the former identifying five candidate Λ production events when the signal was unblinded, consistent with the GENIE prediction of 5.3±1.1 events. Several scanners were employed, selecting between three and five events, compared with a prediction from a blinded Monte Carlo simulation study of 3.7±1.0 events. Restricting the phase space to only include Λ baryons that decay above MicroBooNE's detection thresholds, we obtain a flux averaged cross section of 2.0-1.7+2.2×10-40 cm2/Ar, where statistical and systematic uncertainties are combined.
AB - We present the first measurement of the cross section of Cabibbo-suppressed Λ baryon production, using data collected with the MicroBooNE detector when exposed to the neutrinos from the main injector beam at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. The data analyzed correspond to 2.2×1020 protons on target running in neutrino mode, and 4.9×1020 protons on target running in anti-neutrino mode. An automated selection is combined with hand scanning, with the former identifying five candidate Λ production events when the signal was unblinded, consistent with the GENIE prediction of 5.3±1.1 events. Several scanners were employed, selecting between three and five events, compared with a prediction from a blinded Monte Carlo simulation study of 3.7±1.0 events. Restricting the phase space to only include Λ baryons that decay above MicroBooNE's detection thresholds, we obtain a flux averaged cross section of 2.0-1.7+2.2×10-40 cm2/Ar, where statistical and systematic uncertainties are combined.
KW - Computer Simulation
KW - Monte Carlo Method
KW - Protons
KW - Mesons
U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.130.231802
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.130.231802
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 37354393
VL - 130
JO - Physical review letters
JF - Physical review letters
SN - 1079-7114
IS - 23
M1 - 231802
ER -